Re: Fathers and Sons (was: A favourite chapter?)


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Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on March 21, 2006 at 14:24:53 from 213.38.124.194 user ACB.

In Reply to: Re: Fathers and Sons (was: A favourite chapter?) posted by Peter H on March 21, 2006 at 13:43:24:

A good point. I seem to recall that Arthur Ransome admired Edith Nesbit's books (please correct me if I am mistaken here). Nesbit had an unsatisfactory husband, which is not quite the same thing as an unsatisfactory father, but close. It seems that one may be allowed a mother, but fathers are to be dispensed with, on a temporary basis anyway.

The children of the British middle classes, 1850-1950 or so, were more than usually accustomed to absent parents, since so many parents were living and working in odd corners of the globe where the requisite education was not to be had, and of course there was the generation of the Swallows and Amazons where many fathers had died in the Great War.

However, I still think that, in Ransome, fathers are either perfect or absent.


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